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Identification of ex-Guantanamo Suicide Bomber Unleashes Pentagon Propaganda

Andy Worthington | Posted May 11, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Abdullah Al-Ajmi, Abdullah Mehsud, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Iraq, Kuwait, Mullah Shahzada, Robert Gates, Suicide Bombers, Taliban

Rather horribly, it seems, a former Guantánamo prisoner, Abdullah al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti who was repatriated in November 2005 and who later married and had a child, blew himself up as a suicide bomber in Mosul, Iraq, last month. According to the US military, al-Ajmi was one of three suicide bombers...

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Former Guantanamo Detainee Takes Part In Iraq Suicide Bombing

Washington Post | Josh White | May 8, 2008 10:27 AM

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A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved in a deadly suicide bombing in northern Iraq last month, the U.S. military confirmed yesterday. Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi,...

Suicide bombings, attacks in Afghanistan kill 13, wound 24

AP | NOOR KHAN | April 23, 2008

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A spate of suicide bombings and other attacks on security forces in southern Afghanistan Wednesday left 13 people dead and 24 others wounded, officials said. In Kandahar province, a suicide bomber blew himself up next to a...

Newsweek: The Martyr Factory: Libyan Town Became Pipeline For Suicide Bombers In Iraq

Newsweek | Kevin Peraino | April 20, 2008 11:03 AM

Read More: Iraq Suicide Bombers, Iraq War, Libya, Libyan Suicide Bombers, Suicide Bombers, Warwire

Even before he vanished, Abd Al-Salam Bin-Ali was an easy young man to miss. Pale, lanky and blind in one eye, the unobtrusive 20-year-old didn't leave much of an impression in Darnah, his hometown in eastern Libya. In school he...

Suicide Bomber Kills 7 in Iraq

AP | April 3, 2008

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BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military says a suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing seven people and wounding 12. The U.S. military confirms the Wednesday night attack but puts the toll at five dead and 19 wounded....

Over 40 Killed in Attacks in Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | March 23, 2008

Read More: Iraq Bombing, Iraq Deaths, Iraq Surge, Iraq War, Suicide Bombers, War In Iraq, Warwire

BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday, the military said, pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The grim milestone came on a day when at least...

Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan

Huffington Post | March 13, 2008 06:11 PM

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President Bush let his inner adventurer out while discussing the state of the war in Afghanistan with military and civilian personnel. While those in Afghanistan detailed the logistical and diplomatic problems via teleconference, the President took a much more whimsical...

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Iraq Violence Claims Over 40 Lives

Reuters | Paul Tait | March 11, 2008 01:32 PM

Read More: Iraq, Iraq Bombing, Iraq Suicide Bombing, Iraq War, Suicide Bombers, War In Iraq, Warwire

At least 42 people were killed in violence across Iraq on Tuesday, including 14 mourners from one family when a roadside bomb hit a bus in a southern province, security officials said. Police at the general hospital in Nassiriya, 375...

Blasts Push Pakistan Toward New Policy

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | March 11, 2008

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LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan's crisis deepened after two suicide bombings killed 24 people and wounded more than 200 in this normally peaceful city Tuesday, and pressure grew for more dialogue with militants as a new government prepares to take office....

Iraq Orders Police to Round Up Beggars

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | February 19, 2008

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BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Interior Ministry has ordered police to round up beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad to prevent them from being used by insurgents as suicide bombers, a spokesman said Tuesday. The decision...

Female Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in Baghdad

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | February 17, 2008

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BAGHDAD — A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a predominantly Shiite area in central Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing at least three people and wounding 10, police said. Police in the Masbah commercial area suspected the woman, who...

Mental Hospital Administrator Arrested For Supplying Mentally-Retarded Patients To Insurgents For Suicide Attacks

McClatchy | Steve Lannen | February 13, 2008 05:17 PM

Read More: Baghdad, Iraq, Iraq Mental Hospital Administrator, Iraq War, Mentally-Retarded Women Suicide Bombs, Suicide Bombers, Suicide Bombs, War In Iraq, War On Terror, Warwire

A Baghdad mental hospital administrator has been arrested on suspicion of supplying mental patients to insurgents for use in suicide bombings, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday. The interim administrator at al Rashad psychiatric hospital was arrested Sunday and is...

US Agencies: Terrorists' Use Of Female Suicide Bombers Increasing

CNN | February 12, 2008 01:35 PM

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Terrorists increasingly favor using women as suicide bombers to thwart security and draw attention to their causes, a new FBI-Department of Homeland Security assessment concludes. The assessment said the agencies "have no specific, credible intelligence indicating that terrorist organizations intend...

Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official

AP | NOOR KHAN | January 31, 2008

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial governor and five other people in another blow to President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed government. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the...

Suicide Bomber Kills One, Wounds Four In Kabul

Reuters | January 31, 2008 10:17 AM

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A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan army bus in the centre of Kabul on Thursday, causing numerous casualties, officials said. One civilian was killed and four people were wounded, including an army officer, they said. A purported Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah...

Motorbike Bomb Kills 9 In Pakistan, Wounds Dozens

AP | ASHRAF KHAN | January 14, 2008 05:13 PM

A bomb planted on a motorbike killed at least nine people and wounded 52 others Monday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, officials said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast. Islamic militants have been blamed...

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Pakistan: US Forces Cannot Hunt Al Qaida, Taliban Militants On Our Soil

AP | SADAQAT JAN | January 6, 2008 09:23 AM

Pakistan reiterated Sunday that it will not let American forces hunt al-Qaida and Taliban militants on its soil, after a news report said Washington was considering expanding U.S. military and intelligence operations into Pakistan's tribal regions. The Foreign Ministry dismissed...

NYT Op-Ed: Bhutto Allowed Extremists Who Killed Her To Flourish

New York Times | WILLIAM DALRYMPLE | January 4, 2008 01:45 AM

WHEN, in May 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India was killed by a suicide bomber, there was an international outpouring of grief. Recent days have seen the same with the death of Benazir Bhutto: another glamorous, Western-educated scion...

Inappropriate Hottie Rundown: Political Heir Apparents

23/6: News You Can Misuse | January 3, 2008 04:49 PM

The new leader of Benazir Bhutto's political party (PPP) is none other than her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The teen, whose grandfather and mother have been killed by political opponents in Pakistan, will continue to attend Oxford University until...

Musharraf Suggest Bhutto Partly Responsible For Her Own Death

AP | January 3, 2008 12:35 PM

Musharraf said he also reached out to British investigators for assistance to dispel accusations that Pakistan's military or intelligence services were involved. "We don't mind going to any extent, as nobody is involved from the government or agency side," he...

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